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The materials in this collection gather resources to aid in the research of the commercial, eclesiastical, economic, and geographical history of Cienfuegos, Cuba, as well as featuring texts on important figures and locations. It includes full texts and editions of regional newspapers, as well as the more intimate look at sketches, blueprints, seals, and correspondence, postcards, and business cards.

The Collection of Ralph Renick includes correspondence, trip reports, programs, invitations, newspapers, bills, photographs, clippings, handbook, certificates, directories, passports, speeches, notebooks, maps, tapes. This collection contains materials regarding the life and career of Ralph Renick. Subjects covered by the collection include Los Angeles, China, D-Day, England, Florida Broadcast Pioneers, Florida International University, France, Governor Bob Graham, Greater Miami Jewish Federation, gun control, Israel, Italy, Miami Press Club, Russia, Orient Express, Salvation Army, Secom Foundation, Statue of Liberty, Tallahassee, University of Florida, University of Miami, University of South Florida, World Media Association, Challenger, Miami, Key Club, Tom Brokaw, CBS, NBC, faculty, Dallas, viewer attitudes research, television history, television news, Volkswagen, Pennsylvania State University, Hispanic journalism, Mercy Hospital, riots, Jacksonville, Florida Senate, senior citizens, Iran oil platform, Key West, prayer, Sierra Club, Dean Junior College commencement, Florida Motion Picture and TV Association, hurricanes broadcast, map of Miami, Astronauts Memorial Foundation, journalism education in Central America, governor campaign materials, lottery, Margate, Florida, soldiers, Carnival Cruise Lines, Sons of the American Revolution, John F. Kennedy, map of the USSR, United Cerebral Palsy of Miami, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Papanicolauo Cancer Research Institute, Boy Scouts, and Gerald Ford.

The New Republic/Jorge Mas Canosa Collection in Special Collections in the Green Library at Florida International University consists of materials gathered by legal counsel retained by the New Republic magazine as part of trial preparation in a libel suit filed against the magazine by Mr. Mas Canosa, Chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation. The suit stemmed from an article that ran in the October 3, 1994 edition of the New Republic written by Anne Louise Bardach (pp. 20-25).